Professional ColdFusion 5.0 - Softcover

Horwith, Simon; Etc.; Rios, Paulo; Duivestein, Sander; O'Keefe, Ryan; Segal, Robert; Wintheiser, Andrew; Haynes, Nicole Ambrose; Et Al; Little, Karen; Guenther, Herb; Smith, Don; Watson, Karli; Ullman, Chris; Skinner, Julian; Newsome, Daniel; Graves, Matthew; Graves, Christopher; Johnson, Carmen; Buckbee, Michael

Softcover

ISBN 10: 1861004540 ISBN 13: 9781861004543

Publisher: WROX Press Ltd, 2001

Synopsis

Macromedia ColdFusion is probably the most complete package of tools ever created for developing dynamic web applications. It runs on a number of operating systems, works with almost any web server, and integrates seamlessly with COM, CORBA and Java. The Enterprise edition comes with all the tools you need to create a robust, secure, and scalable web application, including full-text indexing, and clustering and load-balancing software. ColdFusion also has its own complete Integrated Development Environment, ColdFusion Studio, which provides just about all the features you can think of for creating, editing, and debugging ColdFusion templates. Perhaps most importantly, it's extremely easy to use.

This book covers: The new features of ColdFusion 5.0
Extending ColdFusion with Java, COM, and CORBA
Integrating ColdFusion with XML and WDDX
ColdFusion as a web service client and server
Creating mobile applications with WAP and WML
Optimizing the architecture and coding of your site for performance and security
Integrating ColdFusion with client-side technologies such as the DOM and JavaScript
Building CFX tags in Java and C++
Administrating your ColdFusion server

About this title

Review:

Professional ColdFusion 5.0 is a chunky and comprehensive guide to Macromedia's Web application server. This book is suitable both for existing ColdFusion professionals and for those evaluating this technology against rivals such as Active Server Pages, JavaServer Pages and PHP.

ColdFusion is cross-platform, and integrates well with both COM on Windows and Java on any supported operating system. It has strong development tools, including ColdFusion Studio and Dreamweaver Ultradev, and following its acquisition by Macromedia these are likely to get better still.

The authors kick off with a Getting Started section, which explains installation, basic features and key tools such as the Application Manager and ColdFusion Studio. There is also a thorough explanation of CFML (ColdFusion Markup Language), the core tagging system. A section on database essentials covers a wide variety of database servers. The third section has chapters on state management, templates, error handling, scripting and drawing charts. XML and Web services gets a section of its own, followed by coverage of ColdFusion extensions using COM, Corba, Java and custom tags. The later parts of the book go into the detail of administration, such as scheduling tasks, logs and archives, clustering and load balancing, security, troubleshooting and optimisation. There is a brief case-study based on an auction site.

Packed with tips and example code, this is an excellent ColdFusion resource. It is disappointing to find nothing on Dreamweaver Ultradev, whereas the general material here on Cascading Stylesheets and Dynamic HTML can easily be found elsewhere. On the plus side, the chapters on administration are particularly valuable, and the authors do a good job of explaining ColdFusion from the ground up... but at a professional level. --Tim Anderson

About the Author:

Simon Horwith has been building applications with ColdFusion for the past three and a half years. Simon is employed as a developer and as an Allaire Certified Instructor at Fig Leaf Software, one of the nation's top web development consultancies, in Washington, D.C.

With a B.Sc. in Physics, Pualo Rios is a senior computer consultant with more than 12 years of work experience in software development and databases, including five years of Internet development with Java, ColdFusion, and EJB.

After getting his Masters degree in Business Economics, Sander Duivestein started working for Cap Gemini Ernst and Young Netherlands in the summer of 1997. Soon he joined a special unit within this company named Warp11. This unit specializes in building cutting edge web applications. Sander, a Microsoft Certified Solution Developer and a Microsoft Certified System Engineer, is a Senior Developer within the unit Warp11.

Ryan O'Keefe has been working with web applications and databases for the last five years. He is an Allaire Certified Cold Fusion 4.5 Developer and currently works as a Senior Web Applications Developer building B2C and B2B applications in Cold Fusion and XML in Dallas, TX. Ryan began web development on Unix platforms writing CGI applications in PERL.

Robert Segal is a senior developer and development team leader at Fig Leaf Software. He is an Allaire Certified Instructor and teaches Fast Track to Cold Fusion, Advanced Cold Fusion Development, Allaire Spectra for Developers and Fast Track to SQL. Robert has been developing with Cold Fusion since version 1.5 and has been developing database applications for over 10 years.

Andrew Wintheiser is a founding partner and Chief Technology Officer of Lightburn. Lightburn is a technology-consulting firm, which specializes in web application development and database-driven programming. Andrew has been programming with ColdFusion for over 4 years.

Nicole Ambrose Haynes is a software developer and instructor for Fig Leaf Software. She holds a degree in Electrical Engineering from Morgan State University and currently develops applications using the following technologies: ColdFusion, Spectra, JavaScript, DHTML, and SQL Server 7.0. She also has experience with C/C++ and Visual Basic.

Karen Little has been a computer consultant, manager, educator and programmer since 1980. By 1985, around the time the first IBM PC came to the market, she founded Office Technology Academy (OTA), a highly regarded computer training school in Milwaukee, Wisconsin, USA, which she ran until 1991. Karen left OTA and soon thereafter founded Clear Concepts, a consulting company providing training programs, documentation and technical illustrations to major manufacturing companies. She also wrote for numerous technical magazines and was Associate Editor and writer for Corel Magazine. Today she's a Project Manager for web-enabled applications in Downtown Manhattan, where, on her day job, she designs, manages and programs ColdFusion-fueled projects.

About this edition

• Publisher: WROX Press Ltd
• Publication date: 2001
• ISBN 10: 1861004540
• ISBN 13: 9781861004543
• Binding: Paperback
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 1000